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Other Star Performers

John Orcutt, UCSD/SIO
David Lassner, U Hawaii
Amin Vahdat, UCSD
Blaine Morrow, CCC Confer
Holger Schmidt, UCSC
Paul Wright, CITRIS
Lee Thompson, CSU EB
Ruzena Bajcsy, UCB
Laurin Herr, Pacific Interface
G. P. Li, Calit2@UCI
Lee Belarmino, SJ Delta Coll.
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, UCSB
Kevin Patrick, UCSD
Roger Bales, UCM
Liang Feng, Caltech
Peter Nugent, LBNL
Persis Drell, Stanford/SLAC
Jim Gaston, SOCCCD
Phil Muirhead, Caltech
Belinda Heiden Scott, MSJ College
Catherine McKenzie, CCCCO (ret.)
Guru Parulkar, Stanford
Rose Rocchi, UCLA
Marye Anne Fox, UCLA
Maria Spiropulu • Bio Page at Caltech [Maria Spiropulu Picture]
Experiments associated with two particular detectors, called ATLAS and CMS, played a vital role in the discovery of the Higgs boson, with leading researchers of the latter from the CENIC Associate institutions Caltech and UC Santa Barbara. These include Caltech physicist Maria Spiropulu, co-leader of the Caltech contingent of scientists together with previous Star Performer Harvey Newman.

Born and educated in Macedonia/Greece, Spiropulu moved to the U.S. to pursue her Ph.D. at Harvard and worked at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). She has worked on silicon sensors, calorimetry, trigger and data acquisition and on searches for new physics. Spiropulu is interested in the search for dark matter at the LHC, questions on dark matter that cut across particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Her research efforts target instigating innovation in data analyses and creative thinking towards answering fundamental questions on the physics of the universe at the largest and smallest length scales.